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Roy Schneider passes away at 75
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:46 am
by dlbpharmd
www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/10/o ... index.html
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.
Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.
However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.
Scheider received two Oscar nominations, for best-supporting actor in 1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and for best-actor for 1979's "All That Jazz," the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.
However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's1975 film, "Jaws," the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.
Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.
In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie -- "You're gonna need a bigger boat" -- was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.
That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.
The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg's classic. Spielberg, Scheider and Dreyfuss were absent.
Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:22 pm
by Usivius
he will be missed. a unique actor truly.
I recall seeing him in Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" and being totally blown away by it. It was a "WTF" moment...
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:25 pm
by Montresor
That's too bad, but he made a nice impact. My personal favourite role for him was as the retiring hitman Cohen in the Eric Red film Cohen and Tate. I'll never forget his last few seconds in that film.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:13 pm
by Cail
He was great in Jaws, The French Connection, and Naked Lunch, but he was phenomenal in Sorcerer.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:17 pm
by dlbpharmd
I liked him in Blue Thunder and 2010.
Godspeed, Mr. Schneider.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:25 pm
by Cail
dlbpharmd wrote:I liked him in Blue Thunder and 2010.
Oh Hell yeah.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:46 pm
by matrixman
Blue Thunder and 2010 are my favorite Scheider films as well.
He was among the more interesting and intelligent actors that I've seen.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:35 pm
by Keev Furaha
Seeing as how Jaws is one of my favorite movies of all time, that is very sad. He was awesome.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:14 pm
by sgt.null
great actor. always enjoyed watching him work.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:32 pm
by emotional leper
We shall mourn the passing of Captain Nathan Hale Bridger.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:42 pm
by Cail
Emotional Leper wrote:We shall mourn the passing of Captain Nathan Hale Bridger.
I was almost loathe to mention that, but damn, I
loved Seaquest DSV.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:00 pm
by wayfriend
Cail wrote:Emotional Leper wrote:We shall mourn the passing of Captain Nathan Hale Bridger.
I was almost loathe to mention that, but damn, I
loved Seaquest DSV.
... except for the kid. Am I right?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:09 pm
by Cail
Heh, yeah....Except for the kid.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:31 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
I liked that show too.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:43 pm
by Montresor
Uggghhhhh...I hated Seaquest. One of the few shows worse than Star Trek.
Forget the kid - that Dolphin was a war crime of a character!
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:46 pm
by danlo
I particularly liked him in All That Jazz and Romeo is Bleeding.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:50 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
Montressor, just to clarify, just because I like something doesn't mean I think it was good, I like cheesy stuff, it makes me laugh.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:54 pm
by danlo
I was talking about Roy, not the dolphin
. Yes Enterprise is much worse than Star Trek, Seaquest could never hold my attn. for more than 2 seconds...
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:12 am
by matrixman
Seaquest's plots were pretty inane at times, but I loved the ship itself.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:32 am
by emotional leper
The first season of SeaQuest was great.
The second was okay until they stopped doing "Fiction works based on Science," and started doing Science Fiction. :p